Im 16 and my mother has been diagnosed

Hi there, you are doing wonderfully well because this is a situation that reduces everyone to nervous shock. Everyone has given you excellent advice so I will only add three things: be prepared for the waiting, the diagnosis happens like a whirlwind and most everything else is slower than you would like or want. Doctors want to be very sure and that's a good thing but it can be very frustrating when it happens. Two, treatment stretches for ever at the beginning - you think if will never end. But if will and one day this will all seem very far away. Third thing is something I learned from a wise person on this site - don't look back, you are not going that way. Whatever happens in our lives, we move forward. And we all change, all the time. Our skeleton actually changes completely every seven years! Mostly we don't notice these changes, but they still happen. You and your mother will still be the same people at the end of all this, but with a whole lot of new experiences under your belt. You won't enjoy some, but some will be very special. Take things step by step. Come here any time you want or need to. Best wishes.